mapping console to X

From: Stephen Gibson (Stephen.Gibson@anu.edu.au)
Date: Thu 01 Jun 2000 - 01:54:24 IDT

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man vgagl states:
"The  virtual  screen  can  now  be  copied to the physical
       screen as follows:

              gl_copyscreen(&physicalscreen);

       Note that with a virtual screen in system  memory,  it  is
       possible  to add fast X-Window support to a program, using
       MITSHM to copy the framebuffer to the screen window."

What is MITSHM (shared memory?) and how is the mapping to X achieved?

Thanks,

Steve.

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